From: Gene McAloon 

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 11:15:37 -0500, "Mark Hessey"
 wrote:

>"Gene McAloon"  wrote: He
will, as is his wont,
>mischaracterize the Kay report into something that justifies his war
>regardless of WMD or no WMD.
>
>No need to mischaracterize it, it's all there in the interim report and in
>Kay's testimony last week. It is the headlines that emphasize "NO
WMD" that
>are misleading, not the actual overall content of the reports.
>
>BTW, I think he did just fine with Russert in general. Transcript:
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4179618/
>

The headlines were not even slightly misleading. Bush's rationale for war
was the claim of WMD being possessed by Iraq. Kay in his report not only
denies there are any such weapons to be found,, but states bluntly that
they were not there before the war either. Kay hedged somewhat by saying in
effect that going to war may have been justified anyway, but that doesn't
detract from the glaring
fact that Bush's rationale, the WMD, was a mixture of lies and incompetence.

Nor did Bush conduct himself well in the interview. He repeated the embarrassing
arguments that the WMD were there and that they must or might have been
removed by Saddam just before the invasion, shipped to Syria perhaps. Who
in his right mind could listen to that fantasy and not feel nauseated? 
Bush would have been better off just admitting that they had got it all
wrong about WMD, but nonetheless the war was justified for humanitarian
reasons. But no, in his usual
stupidity, he repeats the fantasies about the WMD, knowing how his original
claims have damaged his credibility. But he won't resurrect that
credibility by repeating old party-line damage control defenses that are
already lacking in credibility.

He should have stayed home.

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